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Sk Waller and her love, Nettl, are finally able to get married. We get a lot of stuff wrong in America, which makes it all the sweeter when we start getting certain things right. There are an awful lot of problems that I’m not sure we’re going to solve, but I can take a certain small amount of solace in the fact that we are slowly getting out of the business of legislating the business of love. I can’t attend the ceremony in person, but if anyone there sees some kind of weird spirit-form lurking in a corner, and theDown the rabbit hole….

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One hundred years ago, it began. And in a lot of ways, it hasn’t ended…but then, can we even say that “it” really started one hundred years ago, as opposed to just one particular long and sickening phase of “it”? How the assassination of one particular member of just one of Europe’s many royal families ended up causing that entire continent to dissolve into a four-year war that killed millions and did nothing more than set the stage for the even worse war to come less than thirty years later is one of the scariest of all historical tales, inDown the rabbit hole….

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A church wanted to put an inspiring quote on its billboard. They found one. Problem was, it was a quote by Adolf Hitler. So they went back to the inspirational quote book used it anyway! And they attributed it, right on the billboard! They didn’t even leave themselves the possibility of saying, “Wait, we quoted who now?!” Oy. Maybe I should go offline before I learn that Heinrich Himmler liked pie fights…. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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Know, all who see these lines, That this man, by his appetite for honor, By his steadfastness, By his love for his country, By his courage, Was one of the miracles of the God. — Guy Gavriel Kay “The Green Field of France”, by Eric Bogle Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride, Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside? And rest for awhile ‘neath the warm summer sun, I’ve been walking all day, and I’m nearly done. I see by your gravestone you were only 19 When you joined the great fallen in 1916,Down the rabbit hole….

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A bit of politics here, after the break. Keep scrolling if you don’t want one of my rare bursts of liberalism in this space! On we go…. I’ve seen three articles online in the last week that have really expressed well my increasing trouble with the idea that we need to rely on free-market capitalism, and only free-market capitalism, to solve all of our various problems. First, this by Henry Blodgett, speaking against the notion of rich people as “job creators”: As America struggles with high unemployment and record inequality, everyone is offering competing solutions to the problem. In thisDown the rabbit hole….

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Here, with my usual additions sprinkled throughout, is my updated list of things for which I am thankful. It is not exhaustive! Cape May, Lucky Bones (restaurant in Cape May), Cheddar cheese so sharp it makes you pucker, Sesame crackers, Our azalea plant, Our ivy plant, Cats, Get Fuzzy, blogs, George Lucas, Star Wars, our dining room table, Klein screwdrivers, flashlights, William Shatner, Sela Ward, Mary Stewart’s Arthurian trilogy, Miles Vorkosigan by Lois McMater Bujold, Stephen King, the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey, the hardware store in my old hometown, angle grinders, Dremel rotary tool, Star Trek, Sergei Rachmaninov, TheDown the rabbit hole….